Wishing you a Merry Christmas, 2018

Hello My Blogging Friends,This is the crazy busy time of the year. Since last week I'm continuously baking. Tomorrow I'll bake the the seasons's last fruit cake. I'm taking a week from blogging. I'll come back again next year.

Yankee Candle Village visit

Leaving Vermont we started driving towards south again. When we started in the morning from Hardwick, it was cold and drizzling. Cold wind was blowing.

Vermont Stay

After our visit to Moss Glenn Falls we decided to go to another fall crossing the historic town Stowe. While driving through Stowe I found the town is very beautiful, and cozy. We didn’t have time in our hand to get down there, though I wanted to do that. It was already evening. My son and I was really tired and restless. I wanted to abandon our plan to visit the next fall. However, my stubborn Mr. Man didn’t want to do that. He continued driving. After reaching the foot of the mountain he realized that , he had to drive another one and half hours. The sun was already started saying goodbye. Then he realized it wound’t be wise to drive on unknown mountain roads in dark. So, after reaching there we made tune around, and headed towards our lodge.

My first hibachi experience

For few days we were thinking where we could eat out. I was really indecisive. I was reluctant to have Italian, because I didn’t in the mood to have cheese. I didn’t want to have Thai or Chinese food. Indian food was strictly no-go, as we have Indian food every day at home. My husband was not very keen to take me to Japanese restaurant. My first ever sushi eating performance was not mention-worthy. I don’t know why I couldn’t like sushi. I asked my husband, whether we could try other Japanese food . Still he was skeptical to take me to any Japanese restaurant . Lastly I told that I want to try hibachi. 
The experience at Kobi Japan was simply awesome. After finishing other scheduled works when we reached the restaurant it was 2 o’clock in the afternoon. My husband booked table before. When we entered the restaurant, it was almost empty. I started thinking, would the food be good? Actually the reason was different, that was a big day, that was the “Super Bowl” day. So, that was the reason, the restaurants were empty.

Rosemary Chicken Curry

What a day I spent, yesterday! The day was started as usual. I woke up at usual time. I did the morning chores, except cooking, because I had a doctor’s appointment in the morning, and I didn’t want to have strong cooking smell all over me. My plan was to go some shopping after the appointment. I went to doctor , she told me every thing is fine and normal. I was relaxed and on my way towards Target supermarket. At that time the problem started. I found that my car indicating that it had only 80 miles fuel. That was fine, I was not going far. Then a big truck came in front of me, and I missed the signal where I supposed to take right. I thought, no problem, I would go all the way round on my usual route. I was on my way to Target, and in that particular target I never drove by myself. 

Stuffed omelets with baked salmon

When some very unrelated ingredients are available in the refrigerator, and in the pantry, then what to do? What is the easiest to do? The answer will vary from person to person. Somebody will love to go to restaurant, or take a home delivery. Somebody will like order some missing ingredients online. Somebody will like to avail the newest options which are currently available in the market. However, like an old-fashioned person I always love to improvise with whatever are available at home. When the other option are readily available why should I scratch my head to find out something new. I'm the person, who always like to do that. By this way I can cook same thing in different way. I'm not a chef, but I like to make new recipes. Some times it turns out good, some times not so good. Whenever, something turns out good, I always love to share that with you. Here is something like that.

 

Chicken Kasha (curried chicken)

It was a Friday. Mr. Man was leaving for office, and I asked him to come before lunch. There was no reason to come back home from office early. I told him, if he could come back early, he would get a enticing lunch. As soon as I told that, him readily agreed to come back hone early. After he left, I sat down to think, what could I cook. Actually I was not in the mood of cooking. Slowly I went back to kitchen. Standing in front of the kitchen window I was thinking, what on earth happened that I asked him to come for lunch. I raked my finger in my hair for some time. Then chicken kasha came into mind. I pulled back my hair, tied tightly with a clutch, and started my cooking.

Lettuce-turkey wrap

Before going on anything, first I want to give a big thanks to all my blogger friends for their wishes for my son’s speedy recovery. He is feeling a but well. I will share in details on my “Five on Friday”. Till then please enjoy a simple recipe, which is easy to make yet delicious and healthy.

Moss Glenn Falls

We started in the morning from north Conway, and we were driving through the green state Vermont to our next destination, Moss Glenn Falls. The green state is the perfect name of Vermont. As long as we drove we only saw beautiful green pastures, fall colored tree with few evergreens peeking  from the bright fall color.

Driving from Conway to Stowe

After saying goodbye to the little village hotel in north Conway, we headed towards Stowe, Vermont. We drove through the roads of little downtown of north Conway. However, we didn’t have much time in hand to  get down there. On our way, again we crossed White Mountain.

Five on Friday

Hi all my lovely blogger friends,
All of you want to know about the remodeling task. Yes, it is still going on. Now they are working on the walls inside the house. Hopefully they will finish texturing this week. I just want to thank you all my friends. Yours encouraging words are really helping me to going through this tough situation. Hopefully everything will be done in the first week of December. Then I’ll decorate for Christmas. I’m eagerly waiting for that.  Here is the five days of the my week.

Las Tramps hiking

Rocky Ridge loop trail
We wanted to do a family hike, not any strenuous one. I didn’t want to take my little one on any strenuous hike. Ha can’t walk all those trail, he gets tired, he can take his paining legs. After searching I found out Las Tramps Mountain. In Spanish Las Tramps means “The Traps”. Actually till early 20th century, people used to put traps to catch elks, and big cats. Still there are few mountain lion were left, but there is no elks. 

Mount Olympia hiking

In our hiking group, every time one of the members decide the trail of hiking. This time it was Mr. Man’s responsibility to select that. Mr. Man already hiked with his friends on a different trail of Diablo Mountain. Even last month we three hiked on another trail at Diablo Mountain. This time we decided more strenuous hiking. So, Mr. Man found out North Peak trail in Mount Olympia. The hike was going to be really strenuous, rather impossible to us. Eleven miles round trip with 3000 feet elevation was not possible, specially with a seven years old. Still we wanted to give a try.  In the morning of our hiking day, two of our hiking group members messaged that they wouldn’t be able to join us. So, we three, and another friend decide to carry on.
 

Visiting Moose Pond

While driving from Verona Island to north Conway we passed a beautiful picturesque lake. To our great disappointment we couldn’t get down from the car. A heavy rain didn’t allow us to do that. So we decided to come back next morning. 

At night when Mr. Man asked me the name of the Lake I told him some different name. He couldn't get any lake of that name on the route. Mr. Man is a champion navigator. He traced back route we came to north Conway and found out that was actually Moose pond.